Reborn since 2005

Friday, November 9nd.

The affairs of the new real estate company were finally settled and future plans were agreed upon. Yan Xin finally left Xiaorong Town and returned to Yangcheng.

That night, I got on the train home again.

The 14th is the [-]th day of the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he will go home to celebrate the festival with his family.

Before, he thought about whether to take Ai Lili home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but he thought it was too troublesome, so he didn't ask.

As for Ellie, who has a new job, she can't miss work in the first few days. She still has to get the job done.

The new team has just been formed. As the deputy general manager of the new company, she has a lot to do, and there are no weekends to speak of. She has to work overtime to do the work that needs to be done.

The land should be acquired, the loan should be loaned, and the construction should continue.

These things cannot be delayed.

In the first month, don’t even think about having any rest time.

This also just gave Yan Xin a reason not to invite Ai Lili home, and went home alone.

Feng Xi has already said that he will not go back during the Mid-Autumn Festival and will supervise employees to carry out Mid-Autumn promotion activities at the company headquarters.

Yan Xin took the train on the night of the 12th and slept on the train all night. At dawn, he had returned to their city and then boarded the minibus from the city to the county seat.

He called his father in the car and told him that he would be arriving in the county seat soon.

After saying a few words, his stepmother Wu Xiuhong took the phone, asked him where to get off in the county, and said she would drive there to pick him up.

——Wu Xiuhong got her driver's license last month, and Yan Xin didn't break his promise. He transferred tens of thousands of yuan to buy her a van. Now she is a car owner.

There was only one bus that ran from the county town to the village. Waiting for the bus was too troublesome, so Yan Xin didn't show any pretense and made an appointment to wait at the Workers' and Peasants' Bridge in the county town.

Before he arrived at the county seat, Wu Xiuhong arrived first in a van and called him, telling him where he parked and the license plate number.

Yan Xin arrived 20 minutes late. After getting off the bus, he quickly found the van and went over to get on it.

Wu Xiuhong hadn't been driving for long, so she felt a little nervous. Before Yan Xin got in the car, she asked him:
"I don't have enough driving experience, how about you drive this car?"

She wasn't that afraid of driving by herself, but she was afraid that if the car didn't drive properly and Yan Xin was accidentally injured, then she really couldn't explain it to his father.

In the eyes of others, they might say that she, the stepmother, deliberately framed her stepson.

Yan Xin thought for a while, nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll drive."

It was not like he had never driven a van before. Feng Chen had several vans there.

Driving home, Yan Xin asked Wu Xiuhong about things at home.

Now his dad is still farming, but he has listened to his advice and doesn’t do so much work anymore.

No more cotton, so corn instead.

Rice is only grown for one season.

There are still so many lands, but a lot of things are missing in this way.

Moreover, there is an additional labor force in the family.

There are more people and less work, so naturally we are not as busy as before.

They can't make much money, but now they don't have to pay any agricultural tax, and there is still a little grain subsidy. They won't be compensated for it, and it's enough for them to live on.

In this family, both the son and daughter can earn a good salary. One month's salary is more than they earn in a year, so the two of them will not live as frugally as before.

Their current ambition is not to spend their children's money, but they no longer need to save money for their children. They can spend the money they earn however they want.

It’s hard to say how rich we are, but in the countryside, life is pretty good.

——I grow my own grain and vegetables, and I also raise chickens and fish, which means I need some money to order pork every now and then. Since I don’t eat meat every day, I don’t spend much money.

The price of pork is quite expensive this year, but the impact on them is not that big.

Eating meat twice a week only costs 20 yuan.

That’s less than 100 yuan a month.

But for them, this life is already very good.

According to Wu Xiuhong, she never dreamed of having the life she has now.

Yan Xin felt a little sad when he heard these words.

He smiled and said to her: "The food aspect can still be improved. Xiaoling is now an account manager. Her salary has increased a lot, and my current salary has also increased a lot. You don't need to save money for us at all." , the money I send home every month is for you to use, not to save for you. Eat whatever you want, don't save it for me."

He would send thousands of dollars to his dad's bank card every month, and every time he called, he would ask them to spend the money. Unexpectedly, they still didn't spend it. They saved it all and just spent it on their own earnings. to the money.

Eating meat twice a week, he felt that this standard was a bit too low.

It's not that the meat is delicious, but they limit it to eating meat only twice a week, which is a bit too frugal.

Meat that costs more than ten yuan a catty is reluctant to eat, let alone more expensive ones.

Wu Xiuhong smiled: "You have to do ideological work with your father. He may be too poor to use the money you sent over."

Yan Xin shook his head and sighed: "I am indeed afraid of poverty. Life was really difficult in the past."

Then he was very depressed: "But now our family is obviously not short of money. The house has been built, the furniture and other items have been bought, and all the borrowed money has been paid back. I still have so much monthly salary, What’s there to worry about?”

Wu Xiuhong smiled and said: "The main reason is that you haven't married a wife yet. That is a huge expense. He is afraid that you won't be able to save the money."

In their place, farmers work very hard for a year and only earn a few thousand yuan, but the bride price has already reached tens of thousands, and some want to build a building for their family, and some even want to buy a house in the county.

The poorer the place, the higher the price for marrying a daughter.

There are also some men whose own conditions are not very good, such as being ugly, older, etc. It is more difficult for them to marry a wife, and they need to give a much higher gift than others to succeed.

This has also driven up prices in the marriage market.

And this price is still rising year by year.

Even if Yan Xin could make money, his father still had no idea. He honestly saved the money he sent every month, fearing that his son would not be able to provide so much money when he got married.

Relatively speaking, Wu Xiuhong does not have so much pressure because she is a daughter.

She had never thought about getting a betrothal gift when her daughter got married, but she was not in a hurry about the dowry either.

The custom here is that when a girl gets married, her dowry is just a few quilts. If she is more sophisticated, she will wear some jewelry. If she is not, the man will have to pay for the dowry quilts.

If you have a daughter at home, you don’t have to worry about your daughter not being able to marry because of lack of money. At most, you just have to worry about not being able to marry into a good family.

However, she also saved half of the money Bai Xiaoling sent her every month.

If I don't plan to use it, I plan to use it as my daughter's dowry when she gets married.She knew that she didn't have the ability to earn a decent dowry for her daughter, so she could only save money for her daughter.

Anyway, she feels that her life is pretty good now and there is no need to spend her daughter's money.

Yan Xin was a little speechless - I am a billionaire, but my father is worried that I don't have money to marry a wife!

However, his father didn't know that he was a billionaire. He had been deliberately hiding it, and now he dared to say that he had a salary of 2 yuan or [-] yuan a month.

He thought that this amount would allow his father to spend money with confidence, but he didn't expect that it still wouldn't work.

It’s quite depressing when I think about it.

Frugality is a virtue, but parents are too frugal, which sometimes makes children feel helpless.

After all, I was afraid of poverty before, but now I don’t dare to spend it randomly when I have money. Only by saving it can I feel at ease.

There is no other way but to do it slowly.

In any case, living standards now have improved significantly compared to a few years ago, and the situation is not that bad.

While chatting about these things, we drove and quickly arrived in the town.

When passing by the vegetable market on the roadside, Yan Xin stopped the car and bought a lot of beef, mutton, pork, soft-shell turtle, eel, crab and so on. Wu Xiuhong's eyes twitched when she saw it, and she felt that this child was too wasteful. Yes, it’s just a festival for the three of us at home. Why did we buy so many expensive things?
But that's her own money, she can spend it as she wants, and as a stepmother, it's hard for her to say anything.

At most, two sentences are enough. I can’t eat that much, so I can’t object.

Buy those ingredients, throw them into the car, and keep driving.

After a few steps, we reached the branch road leading back to the village.

After driving on the side road, Yan Xin was stunned again:
"Is the road repaired?"

The road used to be a dirt road, full of dust when it didn't rain, and full of potholes when it rained, so he had to be careful when driving.

But now this road has become a cement road.

It's a bit narrow, but it can still allow two cars to drive past each other.

Yan Xin remembered that this road was repaired in those two years in his previous life, but he didn't know exactly when it was repaired, because at that time he was working outside and did not go home.

The last time I went home was a dirt road, but this time it turned into a cement road.

Quite a surprise.

Wu Xiuhong said: "It was repaired last month. The last time Xiaoling went home, road construction had already started. The village also collected money based on head count. The four of us in the family collected more than 2000 yuan in total."

Yan Xin said: "More than 2000 yuan is not much. It is worth having such a path."

In fact, he knew that building such a road did not require money from the villagers. It was allocated from the higher authorities.

It is impossible to repair such a road with the few hundred yuan per person collected by the village.

It's just that there will always be some money that goes to places it shouldn't go, so you have to collect some money from the people who shouldn't go out, otherwise it won't work.

It’s not convenient to say more about this thing. Anyway, it’s just like that. It’s not just like this place, it’s like this in many places.

It can only be said that it is worthwhile to hand over the money and get such a road.

Driving a van on this newly built concrete road, Yan Xin felt very happy.

No longer have to worry about potholes that suddenly appear on the road, you can drive with confidence and the speed will be much faster.

It's just that when we got to the village, when we got to the canteen opened by Liu Laizi, when we turned onto the fork into the production team, it turned into a dirt road again.

That cement road is the main road connecting several villages, but it does not connect to every household.

In Yan Xin's memory, it would take another ten years before there would be a cement road connecting every household in the village.

It is also the appropriation from above, and the village still collects money according to the head, a few hundred yuan per person.

At that time, he was working out of town, and he was notified through the WeChat group in the village and paid the money through WeChat.

It actually doesn’t take much money to repair the road in the group and connect it to every household in the group. If you hire a construction team to do it yourself, 20 or [-] will be enough.

Yan Xin wanted to get the money, but after thinking about it, he didn't reveal his wealth and let others not think about it.

Finally, I gave up this tempting idea.

Anyway, it's only half a mile from the road to my home, so it's not so unbearable.

It was only around 9 a.m. when we got home.

It's good to have your own car.

In the past, the fastest I could get home was eleven or twelve o'clock.

If you miss that bus, you will have to wait until two o'clock in the afternoon to get home.

Father Yan was waiting for them to come back at home.

After a few months, when he saw Yan's father again, Yan Xin was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Dad, why do I feel that you are young again?"

Dad Yan was a little embarrassed: "Is there any?"

Wu Xiuhong said from the side: "I do look younger than before."

Now living standards have improved on the one hand, and on the other hand, family conditions have also improved. I don’t have to worry about the future all day like before, and my mood has become better, so I naturally look younger.

Even last year, Yan's father was a little worried, worried that his son's high-paying job would not be able to maintain, and the money owed to build the house would not be repaid.

But later Yan Xin told him that all the money he owed had been paid and his salary had been increased. This was when he was completely relieved.

What I care about now is when my son will marry a wife and when he will have children.

I am concerned, but not to the point of worrying too much.

Because the son is still young and can earn money, and the family conditions are there, he will not be unable to find a wife.

Yan Xin came here in a hurry. Before she had breakfast, Wu Xiuhong went to the kitchen and got a bowl of rice noodles to fill her stomach first, and then eat well at noon.

During breakfast, the old couple sat next to them, and Yan Xin asked them about what happened when Ai Lili came over two months ago.

I heard these things from Feng Xi, Bai Xiaoling, and Ai Lili.

What I hear now from their mouths is another perspective.

The old couple had a good impression of Ai Lili and thought she was a very polite girl.

Wu Xiuhong also said with emotion: "Such a good girl, whoever marries her as his wife will really be blessed."